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Female Employment Falls Sharply In Afghanistan After Taliban Takeover


The ILO said restrictions imposed by the Taliban on women have contributed to the sharp drop.
The ILO said restrictions imposed by the Taliban on women have contributed to the sharp drop.

Afghan women's employment has fallen by 25 percent since August 2021, when the Taliban returned to power, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said in a statement on March 7. The ILO said restrictions imposed by the Taliban on women have contributed to the sharp drop. It said that the drop would have been even sharper had it not been for home-based self-employment, which has become the principal modality for Afghan women to work. Meanwhile, men's employment has fallen by 7 percent over the same period, the ILO said.

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